Bug 101811 – confusing list of install boot options

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Bug 101811 - confusing list of install boot options

Summary:	confusing list of install boot options

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	rhl-ig-as-x86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	2.1
Hardware:	ia64 Linux

Priority	medium Severity low
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Assigned To:	Sandra Moore
QA Contact:	Tammy Fox
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URL:	http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/en...
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Reported:	2003-08-07 01:36 EDT by Alex Williamson
Modified:	2014-08-04 18:23 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-08-28 19:31:28 EDT
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Description Alex Williamson 2003-08-07 01:36:19 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030803
Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Description of problem:
The web page lists the following:

Boot Loader Options

To pass options to the boot loader, enter the following at the EFI Shell prompt:

Shell>elilo linux option

Acceptable options that can be passed to the installation program are as follows:

    *      text ï¿½ use text mode installation program
    *      lowres ï¿½ use 640 x 480 resolution
    *      dd ï¿½ use a driver disk
    *      expert ï¿½ expert mode
    *      askmethod ï¿½ select the installation method you would like to use when
booting from the CD

--

  It's confusing that these are all options that get passed to
anaconda and there are no kernel options listed. Customers have
have confused the "text" option to imply a serial console.  Perhaps
some common kernel boot options would be useful here.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read web page
2. Get confused ;^)
3.
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Sandra Moore 2003-08-28 19:31:28 EDT

This has been clarified and will be available in the next release of the
documentation. Thanks for the feedback.

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